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Professor A. M. Potter has instituted, in memory of his mother, two prizes in Comparative Literature, to be called the Susan Anthony Potter prizes. One of $100 is offered to any student in the University or Radcliffe College, for a thesis on some subject in Comparative Literature approved by the Chairman of the Department. The other of $50 will be awarded to an undergraduate of the College for an essay on Comparative Literature in the field of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance...
...early life of the historian was spent in exhaustive reading, and after a short and unprofitable period at Magdalen College, Oxford, he went abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...
Professor M. A. Potter has established in his mother's memory two prizes for students in the Department of Comparative Literature. One, of $100, is for the best essay on any topic in Comparative Literature approved by the Chairman of the Department and is open to all students in Harvard University and Radcliffe College The other, of $50, is for the best essay on some topic concerning European literature in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, and is open only to Harvard undergraduates. These prizes will be awarded for the first time next year...
Professor Potter has also offered for the year 1908-09, in memory of his mother, a prize of $75, to be called the Susan Anthony Potter Prize and to be awarded for the best essay dealing with the Spanish literature of the Goldan Age. The competition is open to all undergraduates. Manuscripts must be delivered at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty. University 20, addressed to Professor C. H. Grandgent, on or before May 1, 1909. Further information in regard to this prize may be obtained from Professor J. D. M. Ford or Professor M. A. Potter...
Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo...